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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

This afternoon, Wodin's Day, 2005

____Time now, 14:02. A couple of minutes into the fifteenth hour. In the Islamic Calendar, today is 26 January 19105. By the Jewish Calendar this is the year 5765, 16th day of the month of Sh'vat. For the old Scandinavian and Germanic peoples, it was the Day of Odin, or Wotan.

Today's shape is The Golden Rectangle.
Today's color is the colour of dead grass.
Today's texture is the crisp dry feel of dry grasses still blowing in the wind.
Today's flower is the pansy.
Today's bird is the Fox Sparrow.
Today's fabric is burlap.
Today's literary selection is John McGahern's The Lanes, published in Granta Number 88, Winter 2004.
Today's first musical selection is the soundtrack to any performance of Cirque du Soleil.

On this day in 1714, was born the French sculptor Jean B. Pigalle, who made " Child with Bird Cage." Parisian philosopher Claude Helvetius was born in 1715. In 1804 was born novelist Eugene "Marie Joseph" Sue France, author of The Wandering Jew. A.W. Dave Nourse, the "Grand Old Man" of South African cricket, was born on this day in 1878. In 1880, in Little Rock, was born the child who would some day become American General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. In 1884, Roy Chapman Andrews, archaelogist and explorer, who led the 1922 expedition into the Gobi Desert, was born in Beloit, Wisconsin. The linguist Edward Sapir was born in Germany in the same year. In 1893 was born Bessie Coleman, the first Black airplane pilot. Stephane Grappeli, jazz violinist, was born in 1908. ____On this day in 1885, the Sudanese executed British Governor-General Charles George Gordon, along with some of his troops, in Khartoum. He was 51 years of age. Johann Christophe Friedrich Bach died at the age of 62. In 1920, in Germany, someone murdered Finance Minister Mattias Enzberger. I have not yet found out who did it.
____This is the anniversary of the American invasion of Grenada, titled Operation Urgent Fury.____We have volumes and vast records of history. How is the development of herstory?

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.